So Apple just released their latest OS.

It has all the newest bells and whistles. Which it should since Apple has a lot of really smart people working for them. They certainly innovate a lot over there in Cupertino. And guess what, even us non- apple users benefit from them …

Last Wednesday I attended a very interesting keynote given by Marten Mickos entitled "Scale Out". Here's a few gems that I gleaned from it: He stated that the survivors of the dot com era built their infrastructure on top of open source (and mentioned Yahoo, Google and eBay as examples …

Today I was lucky enough to attend the MYSQL Users Conference for most of the day. The keynote by Marten Mickos which was very interesting (will blog on that later).

It's very interesting to see how far MySQL has come. (We used MySQL for my senior project at school. While …

So a week ago I was able to install Hoary Hedgehog. What can I say? The install was simple, and it worked. Kubuntu worked as well. I had been itching to install debian for a while to try it out, yet as I'm a more bleeding edge type of guy …

Hmmm, there seems to be a conspiracy brewing. One day I'm blogging about how I'm ranking pretty good for some searches in Google (considering that few read or link to my blog) and the next day Google no longer acknowledges my existence. The three of you that read my blog …

It's pretty amazing how the internet enables people to work together. Tim O'Reilly has dubbed this the Architecture of Participation. Just the other day I made an entry in wikipedia. Wikipedia has this really cool feature where you can see all of the edits to a page and do a …

More thoughts on competition... Justin Gehtland's blog where he mentions his delvings into Ruby on Rails was slashdotted today.

Here is a Java author (he wrote a book about the Spring Framework), jumping ship and advocating the use of Ruby for web development. I'm not really a Ruby person, but …